Human-carnivore conflicts over livestock depredation are increasingly common, yet little is understood about the role of husbandry in conflict mitigation. As shepherds and guarding dogs are most commonly used to curb carnivore attacks on grazing livestock, evaluation and improvement of these practices becomes an important task. We addressed this issue by studying individual leopard (Panthera pa...

There are errors in the Funding section. The correct funding information is as follows: This study was supported by the Mohamed bin Zayed Species Conservation Fund (IK, MS, AKH, AG, http://www.speciesconservation.org/, project No. 12255025) and Erasmus Mundus/ ALRAKIS (IK, http://www.alrakis.eu/, projects No. 2011-2577 and No. 2012-2733). Currently, IK and MW receive funding from Alexander von ...

Gene flow is a critical ecological process that must be maintained in order to counteract the detrimental effects of genetic drift in subdivided populations, with conservation benefits ranging from promoting the persistence of small populations to spreading adaptive traits in changing environments. We evaluated historical and contemporary gene flow and effective population sizes of leopards in ...

Broad-scale models describing predator prey preferences serve as useful departure points for understanding predator-prey interactions at finer scales. Previous analyses used a subjective approach to identify prey weight preferences of the five large African carnivores, hence their accuracy is questionable. This study uses a segmented model of prey weight versus prey preference to objectively qu...

Abstract The use of remote camera traps has accelerated rapidly in the field large carnivore science since 1990s. Members Hyaenidae are important components functional ecosystems Africa and parts Middle East South Asia, make good candidates for study using traps. However, trap studies hyenas remain rare literature when compared to species like tigers Panthera tigris , leopards pardus snow uncia...

Abstract Predation is a major cause of mortality in non-human primates, and considered selective force the evolution primate societies. Although larger body size as protection against predation, evidence for predation on great apes by carnivores comes from chimpanzees ( Pan troglodytes ), gorillas Gorilla gorilla orangutans Pongo spp.). Here, we describe first encounter between wild bonobos pan...